The Section of Governance and Technology for Sustainability (CSTM) is looking for the following profiles to be part of the DIRECT Project (Diffuse Irradiance Redirector for Efficient ConcenTration), the framework of Innovations for Wind and Solar Energies.
DIRECT´s aim is to optimize PV energy yields to reduce environmental impacts and costs and 
provide societal benefits. Through developing novel metamaterials, yield modeling, and field testing, investigating the societal embedding for application scenarios, and assessing the sustainability along the entire lifecycle, we will determine the socio-technical feasibility of DIRECT.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA), and Costing Life Cycle Assessment (C-LCA) will be the methodologies implemented to estimate environmental, social, and cost indicators in the PV energy production system. Circular economic indicators and criticality evaluation will be evaluated parallel as well.
Consortium: as co-funders of the solar project developer Next2Sun GmbH and AmperaPark and the Energiecoöperatie Haaksbergen. Collaborating partners: Saxion Uni. of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, NovelT.
Key publications
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S254243512400045X
Additional online material
- Overhead vs. vertical agrivoltaics – pv magazine International (pv-magazine.com)
- Agri-PV - Next2Sun and partner build first vertical agri-PV system in the US (pveurope.eu)